Covering Conflict Zones

PBS FRONTLINE has put up an interesting discussion called the World Covering Conflict Zones Media Symposium, where journalists discuss the challenges of covering modern day conflicts. The series runs a gamut of subjects from the repercussions of of covering wars in a YouTube world (and doing so without the backing of a large media organization) to asking what awaits the next generation of conflict reporters. In one segment, Frontline/World producer Shareem Obaid-Chinoy talks about her coverage of Pakistan and the roll of the dice one takes when a rebel group gives their assurances that a journalist will be safe. After all, with the Taliban broken up into innumerable splinter groups, she says the "assurances of one group that you will not get kidnapped... doesn't stop a second or a third group from kidnapping you." In another, Darren Foster, of Current TV and Adam Ellick of The New York Times spar over when the value of reporting an event makes it appropriate to violate the law (for instance, sneaking into North Korea or entering Zimbabew on a tourist visa. Anyway, good stuff all around.

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